Abstract
An 11-year-old girl presented with dribbling of urine, mild clitoral hypertrophy, and an accessory subphalic urethra. The main urethra opened into a urine-storing vagina. A simple Y-V vaginoplasty was curative by allowing free egress of urine from the vagina.
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Chacko, J., Sen, S. & Mammen, K.E. Pseudoincontinence caused by “Y” duplication of the urethra with urine-storing vagina. Pediatr Surg Int 5, 282–283 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00169672
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